Chapter 119.—The
Grace of Regeneration Washes Away All Past Sin and All Original
Guilt.

Now in whichever of these four
stages (as we may call them) the grace of regeneration finds any
particular man, all his past sins are there and then pardoned, and
the guilt which he contracted in his birth is removed in his new
birth; and so true is it that “the wind bloweth where it
listeth,”13221322John iii. 8 that some
have never known the second stage, that of slavery under the law,
but have received the divine assistance as soon as they received
the commandment.